Sakai Instructor Cookbook

• Logging into Sakai
• Your First Sakai Session
• Sakai Dos and Don'ts
• My Workspace Overview
• Finding Your Courses
• Set Up Your Profile
• Changing Your Password
• Configure E-mail Notifications
• Configure Your Course Tabs
• Frequently Asked Questions

You can upload and share your course materials in a variety of different ways in Sakai. Choosing the best method depends on the kinds of materials you want to share.

What kinds of course materials do you want to share?

• I want to put my course syllabus online using the Syllabus tool
• My course materials are a set of weekly learning activities, documents, videos, etc. 
• My course materials area set of journal articles/resource documents I want them to have access to online
  
  
• I want to upload a large number of files (WebDAV)

How would you like to communicate with your students?

• I want to post an “announcement” to my students
• I want to send individual students a message
• I want to create a forum where students can communicate with me and their fellow student

Sakai supports a variety of different kinds of assignments and activities for students.

What kind of activity do you want to create?

• I want students to write a paper (or other document) and submit it to me on Sakai
• I want to create a quiz or test for students to take on Sakai
• I want to create a forum for student discussion

• I want to add an assignment to the Gradebook
• I want to set up weighting and categories of assignments in the Gradebook
• I want to enter student grades
• I want to remove a gradebook assignment

• I want to create a Discussion Forum and Topic where studens can post messages
• I want to grade student participation in a forum or topic
• I want to configure Forums for different groups
• I want to post a message
• I want to reply to a message
• I want to see statistics on student participation

• Using the Help tool integrated into Sakai

• What is the rich text editor?
• I want to paste content from Word
• I want to insert a graphic into my text
• I want to create a link
• Use the spellchecker
• Access the default templates